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A TikTok landlord is getting roasted on the platform for making a video series showing him evicting a Section 8 tenant. The TikToker, Mital Patel (@flippingpatel), made a video last month showing the final eviction of a tenant who was a part of the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program. In the video, which has …
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Conservative dating app the Right Stuff launched on Friday. The Peter Thiel-backed app founded by a man who worked in former President Donald Trump’s administration is already having problems. As one reviewer noted, a particularly glaring issue is that it might actually be a useful tool for Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents investigating the …
The United States Supreme Court agreed to hear a case challenging tech companies’ immunity under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. The suit, filed by the family of an American woman slain in France during a series of coordinated terrorist attacks on Muslims, alleges that YouTube facilitated the spread of Islamic terrorists’ content that …
A Black TikToker claimed they were asked to sit in an area of a restaurant with predominantly Black people after asking to sit in another area, in which most customers were white. In a video with over 136,000 views, user Banksu says she visited The Pub in Pennsauken, New Jersey, and was directed to an …
The White House on Thursday held a listening session with experts on big tech and the harms it poses to society at large. The experts, according to a readout of the meeting, pointed specifically to six key areas of concern: “competition; privacy; youth mental health; misinformation and disinformation; illegal and abusive conduct, including sexual exploitation; …
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A TikTok couple went viral after they predicted how well the Crisp Apple Pop Tart flavor would do in stores. The couple, who posts on their joint account @kimandthepapertiger, typically do food reviews and product taste tests. In an earlier video video, the Tiktok duo sampled the Crisp Apple Pop Tarts. Needless to say, they …
These days, the typical job application tends to contain two oddly repetitive steps. First, an applicant is required to upload or submit their resume. Then, the same applicant is asked to fill in almost all of the information on their resume all over again, usually including work history, education, and credentials. This strange practice has …
A Dunkin’ worker based in the southern United States caused a ruckus on TikTok this week after recounting a story in which they revealed they weren’t given breaks at their job. User @matatyoutoo posted an initial video on the subject with two follow-ups; the first video is currently sitting at over 356,000 views. “Me at …
A TikToker’s video advising against getting into pools with swim-up bars has polarized its viewers, with commenters falling into two distinct groups. Unfortunately, those groups are people admitting to urinating in pools with swim-up bars, and people who do not do that. Recent studies show the average pool may have up to 20 gallons of …
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) introduced legislation on Thursday to abolish Section 230, the law that protects websites from being held accountable for content posted by users. Greene, who announced the bill in the wake of Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s planned purchase of Twitter, cited what she described as attacks on free speech by private …
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Former President Barack Obama called for Section 230 to be reformed in a speech on Thursday. In his speech at Stanford University, the former president also addressed disinformation and the future of social media oversight. “Tech companies need to be more transparent about how they operate,” Obama said. “So much of the conversation around disinformation …
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A Target worker on TikTok says that when she tried to get moved to the Ulta section of the store, her boss denied her request due to her appearance. The video was viewed over 169,000 times in a day after being posted by Bree (@breebeitchh). “Me telling my manager i wanna move to Ulta when …
